Something I said in the video I feel warrants more explanation.
I make a comment about leveling skills at the trainer that you don't plan to use, and I thought I should explain my thoughts on that matter more thoroughly.
Say you're a Warrior type character, sword and board and heavy armor. In your travels the most likely skills for you to level are: Blocking, Heavy Armor, One Handed Weapons. Once those skills are maxed out, not just your time, but even your probability of leveling up as a whole goes out the window, so starting at level 51 in all of those skill ranks means that you have to stop playing the way you want sooner, and start playing JUST for the level ups. I hope you can understand what I'm getting at here.
The other point was that eventually as you level you start to feel weaker, and I feel that deserves explanation as well.
Certain enemies like Bandits for example, stay weak, eventually you start 1 shotting them. Other enemies however keep scaling, and don't stay weak. If you, say, 1 shot a Bandit Chief, because you're level 10 with 100 one hand weapons skill, you'll feel extremely powerful right? Well Bandit Chiefs continue to scale with your power well into the range of level 25-30, so when you suddenly can't one shot them anymore, because you're level 30 and still only have 100 one handed weapons skill, it just doesn't feel right.
Sure if you level up non-essential skills the enemies will get stronger, but you won't notice yourself becoming relatively weaker in such a way as described above, you WILL start to see yourself become more powerful. Sure you may never get to the point where you one shot bandit chief's this way, but it's probably better to not have had that ability then lose it later in the game.
Onto something you may have seen on the Youtube channel. The giveaway contest! Since I don't have a lot of readers right now, if any, I'm giving away a copy of Dungeon Defenders on STEAM, in a SHAMEFUL DISPLAY in order to entice people to comment and read this blog.
Rules of the contest: Leave a comment below, and tell me your favorite thing in Skyrim compared to Oblivion, or just your favorite thing in Skyrim in general. It can be how cool the talent system is, it can be the way the new leveling system works, it can be that there are FRIGGIN' DRAGONS! Whatever you want. Just tell me your favorite thing about Skyrim, and make sure I can contact you (make sure you don't post as anonymous or something.)
At the end of the month, I'll select a winner and contact them. Make sure to tell your friends if you already own Dungeon Defenders on computer, so they can win a copy and play with you!
The winner will be drawn from a hat with ripped up pieces of paper, the old fashioned way, don't miss your chance at a free game!
